Psychoanalysis Books
Therapeutic Attachment Relationships: Interaction Structures and the Processes of Therapeutic Change
The seventy-five years that span the writings of Sigmund Freud and John Bowlby - two minds that have significantly shaped thinking about the processes of change in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis -... (more)
The Processes of Defense: Trauma, Drives, and Reality - A New Synthesis
In this direct and scholarly book, Dr. Joseph Fernando provides the first in-depth exploration and up-to-date revision of the psychoanalytic theory of defenses since Anna Freud's 1936 classic, The... (more)
Hypocrisy Unmasked: Dissociation, Shame, and the Ethics of Inauthenticity
Hypocrisy Unmasked explores the motives, meanings, and mechanisms of hypocrisy, challenging two principal psychoanalytic assumptions: First, that hypocrisy expresses deviant, uncontrollable impulses... (more)
Freud on the Psychology of Ordinary Mental Life
This book works to expose that vision and to demonstrate its fertility for further inquiry. It reconstructs several of Freud's works on ordinary mental life, tracking his method of inquiry, in... (more)
Freud and the Far East: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the People and Culture of China, Japan, and Korea
This book is a lexical ambassador with the dual responsibility of bridging the West and East and enhancing psychoanalytic conceptualization in the course of such an encounter. By juxtaposing the... (more)
Demystifying Meaningful Coincidences (Synchronicities): The Evolving Self, the Personal Unconscious, and the Creative Process
Offers an original theory of the nature of meaningful coincidences (synchronicities) and their practical use from a naturalistic (nonsupernatural and non-Jungian) perspective. The findings are the... (more)
Eigen in Seoul: Volume 1: Madness and Murder
This book contains an eighteen hour seminar - given over a three day period - presented by Michael Eigen in Seoul, Korea, in 2007. The seminar traces transformations of madness and faith in... (more)
Mapping Psychic Reality: Triangulation, Communication, and Insight
This book is about how we can deepen our understanding of subjectivity through the use of the concept of triangulation. Fundamentally, this book seeks to address the question of how we can be... (more)
A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis
This book introduces a theoretical framework for studying the mind. Specifically, an attempt is made to frame ideas from psychoanalysis and cognitive-social psychology so that they can be taken... (more)
Ferenczi's Language of Tenderness: Working with Disturbances from the Earliest Years
Ferenczi identified the presence of a child in every analysis or therapy and distinguished between the languages of tenderness and passion in their appropriateness for such work. Using Ferenczi's... (more)
The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
The one thousand entries in this book provide the best single volume coverage of psychoanalysis available. With its wide, objective and catholic vision, the Encyclopaedia demonstrates that... (more)
Under the Skin: A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification
Considers the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and... (more)
Sabert Basescu: Selected Papers on Human Nature and Psychoanalysis
An influential part of the New York psychoanalytic scene, Sabert "Sabe" Basescu is regarded as an outstanding analyst and a significant proponent of the integration of existentialism and... (more)
Get the Diagnosis Right: Assessment and Treatment Selection for Mental Disorders
In this remarkable book, Jerome Blackman allows all readers, from beginners through advanced analysts, to learn about the details of diagnosis of mental disturbance and specific recommendations for... (more)
Freud's Schreber Between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis: On Subjective Disposition to Psychosis
This book investigates what was distinctive about the predisposition to psychosis Freud posited in Daniel Paul Schreber, a presiding judge in Saxony's highest court. It argues that Freud's 1911... (more)
Rescuing Psychoanalysis from Freud and Other Essays in Re-Vision
In his latest groundbreaking book, Peter L. Rudnytsky examines the history of psychoanalysis from a resolutely independent perspective. At once spellbinding case histories and meticulously crafted... (more)
Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process
'Narcissistic States and the Therapeutic Process is a rare book. It is lively and interesting, lucid, and yet profound. It succeeds where many other recent attempts to provide new insight about... (more)
A Dangerous Legacy: Judaism and the Psychoanalytic Movement
On 23rd July 1908 Sigmund Freud wrote to his colleague Karl Abraham: "Rest assured that if my name were Oberhuber [an obviously non-Jewish name], in spite of everything my innovations would have met... (more)
Psycho-Analytic Explorations
This volume contains ninety-two works by this renowned writer, theoretician, and clinician. Includes critiques of Melanie Klein's ideas and insights into the works of other leading psychoanalysts,... (more)
The Universal Refusal: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Feminine Sphere and its Repudiation
Freud spoke of the "repudiation of femininity" as being an "underlying bedrock", part of the "enigma" of sexuality. The enigma is not so much the refusal of the feminine dimension as such; it has... (more)
Guide to Psychoanalytic Developmental Theories
The influence of psychoanalytic theories of development was profound and still resonates in the thinking and practice of mental health professionals. This title provides an overview of what these... (more)
Obsession: A History
We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in... (more)
Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question
What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical... (more)
For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism
Ruth Stein's pioneering study explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. She argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of... (more)
Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities
More than a hundred years ago, Freud made a new mythology by revising an old one: Oedipus, in Sophocles' tragedy the legendary perpetrator of shocking crimes, was an Everyman whose story of incest... (more)
The Trauma Controversy: Philosophical and Interdisciplinary Dialogues
More than a psychiatric or spiritual condition, trauma is an experience that exceeds the capacity of language to fix and settle it. As trauma crosses the lives of individuals and erupts into cultural... (more)
Maimonides' Cure of Souls: Medieval Precursor of Psychoanalysis
Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud. Is Moses Maimonides an unacknowledged ancestor of the psychoanalytic movement?... (more)
A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living
Psychoanalytic perspective on what Western philosophers from Socrates to Foucault have called the art of living. How are our lives meaningful? What is the relationship of loss to creativity? How can... (more)
Unspeakable Secrets and the Psychoanalysis of Culture
Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies. Esther Rashkin argues that psychoanalysis galvanizes, as no other... (more)
Play and Power
The power of play, so central to psychoanalytic theory and practice, is conjoined to the social psychological or socio-politically coloured concept of power, giving rise to many fruitful discussions... (more)